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By (author) Strout Elizabeth
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A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-shortlisted author
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It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby’s longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known – “unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them – reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.
Brimming with empathy and pathos, TELL ME EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”
‘ ‘I’m a huge fan of everything Elizabeth Strout has written, so I will just have to be patient and wait for her new one, , which is out in September’ Red – Summer loving
‘I am looking forward to the return of another literary friend, Lucy Barton, when Elizabeth Strout publishes Tell Me Everything in August.’ The Irish Times – The best books of 2024 so far
”A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own” Hilary Mantel
”A terrific writer” Zadie Smith
”She gets better with each book” Maggie O”Farrell
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Strout is, as ever, wonderfully attentive to life’s inescapable cruelties and woes
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”The shrewd-eyed observer of love, loss and the ties that bind – life, basically – is back. Strout weaves a gossamer light web of a community’s hopes and setbacks.”
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Strout’s ability to reveal the wonder in unrecorded lives continues to astonish
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Strout delivers that most terrible and yet important of literary clichés: a book with heart
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I”m looking forward to the return of another literary friend, Lucy Barton, when Elizabeth Strout publishers Tell Me Everything in August”
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Pathos and dry humour gild tender reflections on loneliness and connection, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
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a tale of hope and healing with all the same beauty she has become known for
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I”m a huge fan of everything Elizabeth Strout has written, so I will just have to be patient and wait for her new one, Tell Me Everything, which is out in September
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Tantalising
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A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own
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A terrific writer
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She gets better with each book
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Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favourite writers
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No one else writes like Elizabeth Strout
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You don”t so much read a Strout novel as inhabit it
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One of America”s finest writers
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What sets Strout”s work apart is her characterisation . . . Long on empathy while steering clear of sentimentality, her prose bears the minerality of a crisp white wine, with a seeming s
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